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title: "Psalm 52 (53) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 52 (Psalm 53 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Dixit insipiens. The general corruption of man before the coming of Christ."
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# Psalm 52 (53)

Psalm 52 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 53 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 7 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Dixit insipiens. The general corruption of man before the coming of Christ.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 52 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. For Mahalath: the thoughts of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
2. They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good.
3. God gazed down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God.
4. All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
5. Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?
6. They have not called upon God. In that place, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who please men. They have been confounded, because God has spurned them.
7. Who will grant from Zion the salvation of Israel? Jacob will exult, when God will convert the captivity of his people; and Israel will rejoice.

## Psalm 52 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, pro Maëleth intelligentiæ David. Dixit insipiens in corde suo: Non est Deus.
2. Corrupti sunt, et abominabiles facti sunt in iniquitatibus; non est qui faciat bonum.
3. Deus de cælo prospexit super filios hominum, ut videat si est intelligens, aut requirens Deum.
4. Omnes declinaverunt; simul inutiles facti sunt: non est qui faciat bonum, non est usque ad unum.
5. Nonne scient omnes qui operantur iniquitatem, qui devorant plebem meam ut cibum panis?
6. Deum non invocaverunt; illic trepidaverunt timore, ubi non erat timor. Quoniam Deus dissipavit ossa eorum qui hominibus placent: confusi sunt, quoniam Deus sprevit eos.
7. Quis dabit ex Sion salutare Israël? cum converterit Deus captivitatem plebis suæ, exsultabit Jacob, et lætabitur Israël.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: Or Machalath. A musical instrument, or a chorus of musicians, for St. Jerome renders it, per chorum.
- Verse 6: That is, God has brought to nothing the strength of all those that seek to please men, to the prejudice of their duty to their Maker.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).